Black Forest Labs
DeveloperExperienceEngineer
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“Developer Experience Engineer at Black Forest Labs. Skills: Developer Experience, API design, Full-stack development. Own DevExp as a product surface. Partner with platform engineering on API design”
Industry & Context.
spotting where the platform is friction
monthly in-person week, travel costs covered
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
4+ years building software, meaningful time on developer-facing products
Nice to Have
Background at a developer platform where DevExp was a top-level metric, built or meaningfully contributed to an MCP server real users / agents rely on, Experience with media-generation or other high-latency, async, job-shaped APIs, A public surface
What You'll Do.
Own DevExp as a product surface
Partner with platform engineering on API design
Work with product engineering on developer-facing surfaces
Make BFL the best visual AI platform for agents
Design the reference patterns
Stress-test every API and SDK change
Own the portfolio of entry points
Add composable workflows
Partner with the Growth engineer
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work shoulder-to-shoulder with the API/platform eng team; Work with research; Work with DevRel; Partner with platform engineering; Work with product engineering; Partner with DevRel and the Creative Technologist team; Partner with the Growth engineer and Product
Full Job Description
About Black Forest Labs We’re the team behind Latent Diffusion, Stable Diffusion, and FLUX—foundational technologies that changed how the world creates images and video. We’re creating the generative models that power how people make images and video—tools used by millions of creators, developers, and businesses worldwide. Our FLUX models are among the most advanced in the world, and we’re just getting started. Headquartered in Freiburg, Germany with a growing presence in San Francisco, we’re scaling fast while staying true to what makes us different: research excellence, open science, and building technology that expands human creativity. Why This Role FLUX is the model developers want. BFL still has to become the platform they choose. In 2026 that platform is judged by a single question, asked by both humans and the agents acting on their behalf: how fast can I go from idea to a production-shaped call, and how good does it feel along the way? We're hiring one person to own that answer end-to-end. Not the SDK alone, not the dashboard alone, not the API alone — the whole developer experience, for both the humans building on BFL and the agents building on their behalf. You're the person on the team who breathes DevExp: spotting where the platform is friction for a developer or for an agent, deciding whether the fix lives in the API contract, the SDK, the console, the docs surface, the MCP server, or the onboarding flow — and then shipping it. You sit inside product engineering. You work shoulder-to-shoulder with the API/platform eng team (think: designing the next API revision), with research as new capabilities land, and with DevRel. Your job is to make BFL the platform that wins on developer experience, the way Stripe won payments and Vercel won frontends. What You’ll Work On Own DevExp as a product surface — wherever the bottleneck is, that's where you ship next. One sprint that might be the API contract, the next it's the dashboard onboarding, the next it's an MC
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